Crude-oil burner.



A. A. WINTERMUTE.

CRUDE OIL BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1912.

1,047,359, Patented Dec. 17,1912.

WITNESSES: I/VVE/VTOR AUGUSTUS A. WINTERMUTE, OF FRESNO, CALIFORNIA,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ELIVIEB-E. COMSTOCK, 0F FRESNO, CALIFORNIA.

CRUDE-OIL BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1'7, 1912.

To all whom z't may concern Be it known that I, AUeUsTUs A. WINTER-MUTE, residing at Fresno, in the county of Fresno and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCrudeOil Burners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved crude oil burner, especially designed andadapted for use in connection with vertical boilers and the like,although it is' not to be considered as limited in use thereto.

In its general nature, the invention pro vides a superheating drum whichalso acts as the supporting element for a burner oil pipe that passesthrough the drum from top to bottom and is secured to the bottom of thedrum by an adjustable securing device whereby the head of the burnerpipe, which is provided with a baffling surface,may have its bafiiingsurface adjusted toward or from the drum to vary or change the nature ofthe escaping steam sheet, the drum having ports or grooves around theburner pipe to permit the escape of steam beneath the baffle. The burnerpipe above the baffle has a spreading surface onto which oil isdelivered through ports in the burner pipe head.

The invention also includes those novel details of construction,combination and arrangement of parts, all of which will be first fullydescribed, and then be specifically pointed out in the appended claim,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of the burner complete. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe drum. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the burner oil pipe. Fig. 4 isa central vertical longitudinal section on the line 44 of Fig. 5. Fig. 5is a horizontal section on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in which like numerals andletters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, 1 is theburner drum into which steam is admitted through the inlet pipe 4. Thedrum 1 is bored at the top and bottom to receive the burner oil pipe 6,which passes through the drum and is threaded at 7 to screw into thelower tapped aperture of the drum 1. The pipe 6 is adjustably held inposition by the jam nut 8. The pipe 6 has a head 9 which is providedwith an annular groove 10, the lower wall 18 of which, is downwardly andoutwardly inclined and coniform to serve as an oil distributing baiiie,onto which oil passes from the oil holes 12 in the head 9. The head 9also includes a steam baflie or flange 11 that fits over the steamdischarge grooves or openings 3, that radiate from the upper bore 2 ofthe drum 1. By adjusting the pipe 6 in the threaded hole 5, of the drum1, the baflie flange 11 may be brought closer to or moved farther fromthe drum 1, and thereby diminish or increase the space 14 between theflange 11 and the upper surface of the drum 1 to vary the steam sheetaround the burner head 9.

In operation the oil passes up through the pipe 6 and is dischargedthrough the ports 12 onto the coniform oil distributing surface 13,where it flows outwardly and meets the sheet of escaping steam thatenvelops the burner 9, it being understood that when the oil is ignited,the combustion of the same is assisted by the steam which acts as anatomizer of the oil.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it is thought the complete construction,

operation and advantages of the invention will be clear to those skilledin the art.

It should be understood that the oil supply pipe should be attached tothe pipe 6 beneath the nut 8 in any desired way while steam is admittedto the drum 1 through any suitable connection 4.

What I claim is A drum, an oil burner pipe projecting through said drum,one end of said pipe being threaded into said drum, a jam nut on saidthreaded end outside of said drum, the other end of said pipe extendingabove the drum and terminating in an integrally formed head having anannular peripheral grove, the under face of said groove being normal tothe axis of said pipe and the upper face of said groove being coniform,said pipe having radial oil outlet apertures discharging into saidgroove, the drum aperof said drum, and means for passing steam tureadjacent to said head being of a diaminto said drum substantially asshown and et-er to contact the oil pipe, said drum haV- for the purposesdescribed.

ing steam passages radiating from said pipe AUGUSTUS A. l/VINTERMUTE.aperture, the under face of said pipe head Witnesses:

lying in a plane normal to the axis of said L. B. HAYHURST,

pipe and parallel to the adjacent end face J. N. HAMBLETON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

